Thug Quotes

• If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug Life

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• I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fake Friends, Dark, Night

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• If you don't know me, don't judge me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Judging, Don't Judge Me, You Don't Know Me

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• Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.

  Tupac Shakur

  Giving

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• God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

  Tupac Shakur

  Heart, Men, Judging

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• Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Religious, Forgive Me, Religion

  Song: Lord Knows, Album: Me Against the World

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• You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

  Tupac Shakur

  Giving Up, Heads Up, Hard

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• When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.

  Tupac Shakur

  Mean, Two, People

  Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, Jacob Hoye, Karolyn Ali, Walter Einenkel (2003). “Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

  Tupac Shakur

  Betrayal, Chance

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• Rollin wit a posse full of paranoid drugdealaz!

  Tupac Shakur

  Posse, Paranoid, Wit

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• I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

  Tupac Shakur

  Lying, Trying, Firsts

  Song: Starin' Through My Rear View

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• Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest,
  Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

  Big Pun

  Wise, Cousin, Rap

  Song: Who Is a Thug

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• This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dream, Rapper, Light

  Song: Unconditional Love

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• All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

  Tupac Shakur

  Weed, Pain, Hennessy

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  Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dying, Only God Can Judge Me, Dies

  Song: Runnin'

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• Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.

  Tupac Shakur

  War, Heart, Different

  Vibe magazine interview, February 1996.

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• There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

  Tupac Shakur

  Pain, Rain, Bullshit

  Song: Smile

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• During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

  Tupac Shakur

  Dream, Rap, Only God Can Judge Me

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• Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

  Tupac Shakur

  Care, Causes, Helping

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug Life

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• It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

  Mos Def

  Artist, People, Black

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• A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

  Willard Gaylin

  Humanity, Trout, Killers

  Willard Gaylin (1982). “The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice”, Simon & Schuster

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• Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

  Rufus Jones

  Intelligent, People, Body

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• I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

  Dr. Dre

  Hip Hop

  Song: The Watcher

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